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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts for joiner's, plumber's and plasterer's work at Edmonstone House, Midlothian, the property of John Wauchope.

 File
Identifier: MS.14247
Scope and Contents

The volume originally included accounts for mason's work as well, but these have been torn out.

Dates: 1830-1832.

Accounts for the St Vincent plantation of Allan Macdowall.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14158
Scope and Contents

Monthly statistical account of the Park hill plantation on St Vincent months before the abolition of slavery, including information on enslaved people.

Dates: 1834.

Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.

 File
Identifier: MS.19986
Scope and Contents

These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.

Dates: 1825-1838.

Accounts of John Aitkin, 1780-1792.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6548
Scope and Contents

With two farm account books, 1781-1795, 1793-1826, for farms near Brechin.

Dates: 1780-1826.

Accounts of Montrose Church.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3048-3049

Accounts of or relating to the family of Dun of Tarty in Aberdeenshire.

 File
Identifier: MS.3933
Scope and Contents

The accounts refer mostly to loans, rents, and bonds, but give a few instances of prices. Some appear to be the accounts of a factor or agent.

They start at both ends of a vellum-bound volume. Several leaves after folio 20 have been torn out. A modern note on the family is pasted on folio 21.

Dates: 1663-1723.

Accounts of the collieries and salt-works of the family of Wemyss of Bogie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3086-3088
Scope and Contents

On the death of Sir John Wemyss, 2nd Baronet, in January 1719, the property is conducted for Sir James, 3rd Baronet, by tutors. Sir James first signs for himself, with his curators, in April 1726 (MS.3088, page 121).

Dates: 1705-1732.

Accounts of the Receiver General of Customs in Scotland, and of the Commissioners of Excise.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.11
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.5.3.

Dates: 1762-1775.

Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Annual Reports, accounts and minutes of North Berwick Golf Club.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13228
Scope and Contents North Berwick Golf Club was formed on 8th May 1832 to play over the links there. The original course of 6/7 holes was extended to 12 in 1869-70 taking over the Park to the west. In 1877, the Club acquired the right to play over part of the Dirleton estate. This became known as the Private Golf Links or Greens. From the earliest days, the members of the Club dined together after their matches and, in 1879, it was resolved to build a Clubhouse by the links. The committee formed to oversee this...
Dates: 1984 to 2005.